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0mmN TIL the first slave owner in what would become America was black.
BgRbW TIL in 1989, Silicon Beach Software coined "plug-in" to describe add-on extensions for their graphics app SuperPaint. They were later acquired by Aldus, which in turn was acquired by Adobe.
AMgB TIL Paul Rudd and Jon Hamm once played each other in a game of Trivial Pursuit for the affections of a girl
0w8AM TIL that a guy called Dale Schroeder used his life savings to send 33 students to college. he grew up poor in Iowa, never married, had no children, and worked as a carpenter at the same company for 67 years and only owned 2 jeans.
8a5vZ TIL that Navajo language was used in the WWII by the U.S. Armed Forces in the Pacific to encrypt communications. They simply had Navajo Indians talking to each other, and since the language is exceedingly complex and has no written form, not a single person in Japan knew anything about it.